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[QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 5098545, member: 1673"]
Your original poll plus this tabulation was great!  I believe the poll demonstrates the “wisdom of crowds,” that aggregates individual biases and filters it.  I’ll add to principles that have served me well in predicting starting line ups.

1.  For “positionless” players Auriemma has a demonstrated preference for experienced competence over potential talent.  Freshmen from Sales to Moore do not get the initial starts even when they get the most minutes.
2.  Auriemma has made exceptions to the first principle with “position” players, ie, those he is grooming from the start to lead the offense or anchor the defense (Montgomery, Dolson).

The first principle explains why Shade scores so high from the collective wisdom of the BY.  The second explains why JEA scores so high.  The two principles together explains why Arnold scores significantly higher than Strong.  With the benefit of seeing this wisdom from the BY and adding in my own bias I will say:

Bueckers = 10
JEA = 10
Shade = 10
Arnold = 6
Brady = 5
Chen = 5
Strong = 4
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First name of men's bb coach